{"id":63134,"date":"2025-04-30T14:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/63134\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T14:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T14:28:17","slug":"fury-as-labour-politician-reveals-5-signs-uk-is-rejoining-eu-in-brexit-betrayal-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/63134\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury as Labour politician reveals 5 signs UK is \u2018rejoining EU\u2019 in Brexit betrayal | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Labour<\/a> politician has triggered fury after laying out signals that the UK is rejoining the EU<\/a>. Labour councillor for the new St James ward in Waltham Forest, London, Sebastian Salek said on Meta’s social media site Threads: “It\u2019s not obvious yet, but the EU rejoining process has already begun. Not through campaigns or slogans \u2013 but technical deals and unsexy laws.”<\/p>\n

Firstly, he said: “Rachel Reeves<\/a> has confirmed the Labour is discussing a scheme to allow young Brits to work in Europe. That\u2019s a big shift from \u2018No plans for a youth mobility scheme\u2019, which was the line before the election.”<\/p>\n

Next, he notes that a food standards deal would “eliminate checks on food and drink that\u2019s exported to the EU, and sent from Great Britain to Northern Ireland”. Thirdly, Cllr Salek said that the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill “allows the UK to choose whether to recognise EU product rules”. This is currently going through Parliament. Next, there is the matter of “relinking UK and EU carbon markets”.<\/p>\n

The councillor added: “Both sides charge companies for the pollution they produce. Linking the systems would let UK and EU firms trade these carbon permits freely.”<\/p>\n

Finally, he said that a defence agreement is “the biggie”, as it “would allow British defence companies to bid for money from the \u20ac150bn EU defence fund.”<\/p>\n

Cllr Salek concluded: “Step one of rejoining is rebuilding trust and institutional ties. That\u2019s why these deals matter. They\u2019re the groundwork any future rejoin campaign will need.<\/p>\n

“The process will take time. But this is how it starts.”<\/p>\n

Reform UK MP James McMurdoch has lashed out at the Conservatives<\/a> and Labour over the issue. He told the Express: “The Uniparty has completely failed to capitalise on the potential benefits offered by Brexit<\/a> and now they are looking to betray Brexit<\/a> by the back door.”<\/p>\n

Tory Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp, said: “There should be no doubt about it, Labour’s betrayal of Brexit<\/a> has begun.<\/p>\n

“With Labour Councillors now openly talking up how this government is backing open border deals and dragging us back to Brussels’ rule making, the writing is on the wall.<\/p>\n

“But the Conservatives<\/a> will never let Labour betray the democratic will of the people without a fight. We have set five clear tests for Labour on Brexit<\/a>, and will continue to hold them to account on this.”<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer<\/a>, has rejected suggestions the UK will rejoin the EU, insisting the UK’s future has been decided.<\/p>\n

He said in February: \u201cI\u2019ve been very clear since I became Prime Minister that I do want a reset of the relationship between the UK and the EU.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat does not involve a return to the European Union<\/a> \u2013 we had a referendum here on that, and that matter is settled.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I do want to see a closer relationship on defence and security, on energy, on trade and our economy, and that is what we\u2019re working on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that is certainly in the UK\u2019s best interest, I do believe it\u2019s in the EU\u2019s best interest, and already I hope that in the last seven months there\u2019s been a manifest difference in approach, tone and relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Labour politician has triggered fury after laying out signals that the UK is rejoining the EU. Labour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,527,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,807,528,386,16,16235,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-63134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-conservative-party","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-labour-party","18":"tag-reform-uk","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-uk-politics-section","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114427389996749819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}